"A disappointing experience here, due to multiple factors. They really should just tear down this hotel and rebuild a new one. Where to start....
The worst:
- Rooms facing the road - you hear street noise, and get woken up in the middle of the night by police cars and ambulances and garbage trucks. No soundproofing at all.
- Shower mixer is cheap - so the water goes from hot to cold, hot to cold. Nothing you can do about it.
- The pillows have lost all fluffiness, just a hard slab. When we asked if they had other pillows - no luck. All the same.
- No complimentary water given in the room.
- Soundproofing in the rooms is non-existent. So if you want to sleep past 8am, tough luck. As you hear housekeeping dragging stuff in the corridor outside, banging open doors, running the hoovers. If upstairs room drops anything on the floor or walks around in shoes, you hear it too. Also water flowing through pipes. Combined with the room facing the road; almost impossible to get a night's sleep all the way through, you get woken up very often.
- Not much of a bar or restaurant in the hotel, so if you're looking for either, skip this hotel.
The average:
- Breakfast is OK, passable. I wouldn't pay more than 5-10 euros for it though. However, there's also not many good options nearby. The carrefour next door will have some pastries though, and there's a kettle in the room.
- Bathroom was modern (except for the badly behaving shower mixer).
- Staff were kind and courteous.
- Bed is OK. On the firmer side than softer side, if that's your preference.
The good:
- Its obviously cheaper than a city centre hotel; I would definitely want to be paying c50 euros a night or more less than an equivalent 3 star hotel in the center (note, this hotel claims 4 stars, but it probably is closer to a 3 star quality).
- Its 1-2 minutes walk to the metro station on the M1 line, which gets you to the center really quickly. So good enough for touristy purposes.
- There's a 24 hour medium sized Carrefour next door, for all your needs.
- Wifi was decently fast.
- There's a safe in the room, for valuables."
